Now that you've changed things, time travel wasn't invented in your lifetime, so either you vanish and the whole thing is undone, or your time machine does. So now you're stranded in wartime Berlin. And you've just killed the beloved leader of one of the most powerful military machines in history.

Doc Brown says that killing Hitler would have a ripple effect throughout time, so you could get back to your relative present before you lost the time machine to non-existence.

No, I'd probably spend some time trying to identify the key players in continuing various religions and stopping them in some manner. Religion is the basis for pretty much all of the bad things in our world.

Of course, without all of the killing in the name of religion, we'd have overpopulation issues.

lennavan:No, I'd probably spend some time trying to identify the key players in continuing various religions and stopping them in some manner. Religion is the basis for pretty much all of the bad things in our world.

Of course, without all of the killing in the name of religion, we'd have overpopulation issues.

lennavan:No, I'd probably spend some time trying to identify the key players in continuing various religions and stopping them in some manner. Religion is the basis for pretty much all of the bad things in our world.

Of course, without all of the killing in the name of religion, we'd have overpopulation issues.

As an atheist myself, I can safely assure that religion is the source of a lot of good things as well, nor does it corner a market for bad things in the world.

Religion is a human construct. And as a human construct, it can be the most beneficial thing or the most destructive thing.

Meh. If I had a time machine, I'd use it to go back in time and loan it to my previous self, who would figure out how it works and patent it. Then I'd return to the present, where I'd be insanely rich from selling time machines, and someone else would have killed Hitler and had to deal with all the paradoxes and crap.

The only problem would be if someone bought a time machine from me for the express purpose of preceding my patent, so I'd have to have a no-prior-invention-ganking clause in the TOS.

Skyd1v:fickenchucker: I'd go back to June 1st, 1983, the day before my sister was killed, and warn her not to go home that night.

/fark Hitler--I had no-one from my family die during WWII.

There is enough there in one sentence to give a person chills.

/Please tell me that is a reference to something I am missing.

Nope--not a joke. My sister was killed when I was 13 (she was 23), and it farked up the family something fierce. I think I'm the only one who emerged predominantly normal, and even that is up for debate.

But that's been so long ago I've "healed", to choose a phrase. Now it's just part of my formative years.

Given a time machine, I would steal my parents' car, drive to her, force her to alter her plans, and let the biatch who killed her die.

/Long story short, a coont ran her car in mansion's garage and gassed herself for a successful suicide, ignoring the logic that a former servant's-quarters-turned-modern-apartment apartment above the garage might fill up with CO in the process.

toraque:Meh. If I had a time machine, I'd use it to go back in time and loan it to my previous self, who would figure out how it works and patent it. Then I'd return to the present, where I'd be insanely rich from selling time machines, and someone else would have killed Hitler and had to deal with all the paradoxes and crap.

The only problem would be if someone bought a time machine from me for the express purpose of preceding my patent, so I'd have to have a no-prior-invention-ganking clause in the TOS.

My grandfathers work schedule increased drastically in the late 30s due to the country gearing up for war (he worked in the aviation industry), and his window for plowing my grandma and conceiving my mom in late 1939, was made much narrower as a result.

Probably a different son or daughter would have been born to them around that time, but it wouldn't have been me.